Ede wrote: "It helps if a functionality is only available at one point in the UI to avoid confusion."
I agree %100. One of the things that makes AutoCAD so difficult to learn is there's always at least 4 ways to do the same thing. Ede wrote: "I'd suggest to take this issue as a reason to cleanup and reorder the context menu. - Look for doubled entries and decide to put them only in Layer or context menu. - Group similar items together (e.g. editable, selectable, viewable) - separate different groups by lines to enhance usablity (less groups=less lines)" I agree %100 again. Ede wrote: "Anybody willing to make a list of items on all layer specific menus (main menu layer, layer context, viewport/map context)? Once we have it, we could try to reorder on "paper" and see if we find some senseful solution, that is intuitively understandable to even beginner users." I'm willing to work on this UI reorganization after I get done with the vertex styling bug. (Unless some eager beaver wants to beat me to it.) This will probably be near the end of the year. I can present a list of possible reorganized menu items at that time. I'll be working on my personal task list for OJ in the next few days, so I can add this at that point if someone else hasn't claimed it. The Sunburned Surveyor On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:35 AM, <edgar.sol...@web.de> wrote: > On 28.10.2010 11:24, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: >>> > It helps if a functionality is only available at one point in >>> > the UI to avoid confusion. >>> > I'd suggest to take this issue as a reason to cleanup and >>> > reorder the context menu. >>> > - Look for doubled entries and decide to put them only in >>> > Layer or context menu. >> There are some problems but I do not know if they are serious. For a >> totally new users it takes some time to learn which operations are >> available from the main menu and which ones from the context menu (and >> that to get the context menu user must go over the layer name first). I >> believe that when I start using a new software I am first going through >> all the main menus and what can be found there. It is more difficult to >> go through all the context menus because it is hard to guess how many >> different context menus exist and in which way they can be activated. >> But we have allready operations which can be launched only through the >> context menus like Save selected datasets, zoom to layer, Select layers >> with selected items. Would you guess as a beginner that the latest comes >> from context menu on top of the map window and not through main menu >> Layer nor throuh layer list context help? >> > > Anybody willing to make a list of items on all layer specific menus (main > menu layer, layer context, viewport/map context)? Once we have it, we could > try to reorder on "paper" and see if we find some senseful solution, that is > intuitively understandable to even beginner users. > > If we change this however, we should do that with the next major release and > explain the new concept for our senior users. > > ..ede > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
